2. To what does the narrator relate Tupac's arrest?
(a) To how slaves were brutalized.
(b) To the arrest of others in Queens.
(c) To Mahatma Gandhi's arrest.
(d) To Mandela's arrest.

3. Where did Tash play piano before going to prison?
(a) For his school chorus.
(b) Church.
(c) In his school orchestra.
(d) A local nightclub.

4. What does Jayjones say about black men?
(a) They are hunted.
(b) They need to learn to get along in white society.
(c) They should leave the United States.
(d) They should hunt just as they are hunted.

5. Who is Sly?
(a) A cop.
(b) A masculine tough man.
(c) An effeminate gay man.
(d) A lawyer.

6. Where do the girls walk?
(a) The the cousin's neighbor's house.
(b) To a large amphitheater in the park.
(c) To the basement where the party is going on.
(d) To an ice cream store.

7. What effect does Tupac's imprisonment have on him?
(a) It makes him decide to change his life.
(b) It enrages him.
(c) It numbs him.
(d) It sends him into deep depression.

8. Why is Neeka resentful on the trip?
(a) She does not feel well.
(b) She was supposed to go to a birthday party that day.
(c) She has to watch her two younger brothers.
(d) She was supposed to go to the movies with a boy that day.

9. When does Tash expect to be out?
(a) Within 2 years.
(b) In a week.
(c) The end of summer.
(d) He has no expectations.

10. How does Randall resemble Tash?
(a) He is an effeminate gay man.
(b) He is devious.
(c) He is religious.
(d) He is calm and somber.

11. What is the narrator doing when she says she feels whole for the first time?
(a) Singing for the party guests.
(b) Snorting cocaine.
(c) Standing on the stage in the amphitheater.
(d) Dancing with a very handsome young man.

12. What does Sly convince Tash to do?
(a) Take Sly and a friend to Randall's home.
(b) Go to an illegal gambling joint.
(c) Beat up a cop.
(d) Borrow some money and bet on some horses.

13. What does Neeka want to do?
(a) Become a law or math professor.
(b) Become a model.
(c) Become an actress.
(d) Become a rapper like Tupac.

14. What does the narrator say about D's mother?
(a) She is extremely black.
(b) She is strange.
(c) She is white.
(d) She is French.

15. Why does young Albert have to take off his wire-rimmed glasses?
(a) So he cannot give them to Tash to make a knife out of.
(b) To go through the metal detector.
(c) He doesn't wear glasses.
(d) They are fogging up because he is crying.